A Planctus Marie carol — five quatrains (aaab) and burden:
‘Alone alone alone alone / Sore I sygh and all for one’
Note: Ringler Jr. (1988)
XRingler Jr., William A.
Bibliography and Index of English Verse Printed 1476-1558.
London: Mansell, 1988
, TP 171; for burden cf.
3701.
Subjects: Virgin Mary, lament of; carols, of the Passion
Versification: —
four-line, two-line —
aaab, aa
1.Source: STC 5204.5.
Christmas Carolles, [R. Copland f.] R. Kele, [1545?] , ff. 9-9
v
First Lines:AS I went this enders day
Alone walkyng on my
play…
Last Lines:…That we may hym in heuyn se
Whan we shall hens
gone
Note: Beginning of the burden and end of stanza 4 lost by
tearing.
Attributed Title: [ ] our Lady and her sonne (f. 9)
Facsimiles: Reed, Ernest Bliss.
Christmas Carols Printed in the Sixteenth Century
Huntington Library Publications.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1932 [= Kele, ca. 1550]: 35-6.
Editions: Greene, Richard Leighton.
The Early English Carols.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1935; 2nd ed., rev., Oxford: Clarendon,
1977: 123-4; 1977, 110.